American Art : History and Culture - rev edition

Summary: American Art set the standard for American art survey courses for the last decade by providing a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way, Craven charts the growth of a distinctly Ameri

can art culture. The resulting book is as much a history of American culture as of American art.

Features :

NEW! Illustrations. With over 750 illustrations, American Art gives instructors the most flexibility any American art survey text currently available. Additionally, 64 more illustrations are now presented in full color in this revised edition.

Cultural Context. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the cultural context of the period within which the chapter's artworks were created.

Breadth of Coverage. Craven offers the most comprehensive survey of American art from its beginnings in the colonial period through contemporary works.

Updated Bibliograhy. The bibliography has been updated to include the most recent sources.

Summary: American Art set the standard for American art survey courses for the last decade by providing a thorough and engaging chronology of American art, including painting, sculpture, architecture, decorative arts, photography, folk art, and graphic arts. Wayne Craven presents art and artists within the context of their times, including insights into the intellectual, spiritual, and political environment. Along the way, Craven charts the growth of a distinctly American art culture. The resulting book is as much a history of American culture as of American art.

Features :

NEW! Illustrations. With over 750 illustrations, American Art gives instructors the most flexibility any American art survey text currently available. Additionally, 64 more illustrations are now presented in full color in this revised edition.

Cultural Context. Each chapter begins with a discussion of the cultural context of the period within which the chapter's artworks were created.

Breadth of Coverage. Craven offers the most comprehensive survey of American art from its beginnings in the colonial period through contemporary works.

Updated Bibliograhy. The bibliography has been updated to include the most recent sources.

Chapter 1 The New World and New Spain Chapter 2 Architecture and Decorative Arts: Virginia, New England, and New Netherland in the Seventeenth Century Chapter 3 Painting and Sculpture: The Seventeenth Century Chapter 4 Architecture and Decorative Arts: 1700-1750 Chapter 5 Painting and Sculpture: 1700-1750 Chapter 6 Architecture and Decorative Arts: 1750-1776 Chapter 7 Painting: after 1750

Chapter 13 Architecture: The Age of Romanticism and Eclecticism, 1825-1870 Chapter 14 The Decorative Arts: The Age of Romanticism and Eclecticism, 1800-1870 Chapter 15 Painting: Landscape, 1825-1870 Chapter 16 Painting: Genre, Narrative, Still Life, and Portraiture, 1825-70 Chapter 17 Photography: The Early Years, 1839-1870 Chapter 18 Sculpture: Neoclassicism and Naturalism, 1825-1870 Chapter 19 Folk Art: A Special Mode of Vision

Part Four : The American Renaissance

Chapter 20 Architecture: The Age of Capitalism, Imperialism, and High Society, 1870-1900 Chapter 21 Towards Modern Architecture: New Technologies and the Advent of the Skyscraper,1850-1900 Chapter 22 The Artful Interior: Cosmopolitanism, The Aesthetic Movement, and the American Home, 1870- 1900 Chapter 23 Painting: The Naturalistic Tradition and Cosmopolitanism, 1870-1900 Chapter 24 Painting: American Impressionism, American Renaissance, and Trompe L'Oeil Realism Chapter 25 Photography, 1870-1900Chapter 26 Sculpture: From the American Renaissance to the Western Frontier, 1870-1900

Chapter 33 Architecture: The International Style and the "Glass Box," 1940 to the Present Chapter 34 Architecture: Diversity and Reaction, 1940 to the Present Chapter 35 Design in America: Modern and Postmodern, 1940 to the Present Chapter 36 Painting: The African-American Experience, Social Realism, and Abstraction, 1940 to the Present Chapter 37 Painting: Hardedge Colorfield, Pop Art, and Realism, 1940 to the Present Chapter 38 Sculpture: Old Traditions and New Directions, 1940 to the Present Chapter 39 Sculpture: Feminism, Found Objects, Pop. Minimalism, and Realism, 1940 to the Present Chapter 40 Photography: 1940 to the Present

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